Karen Post

Known to many as the "The Branding Diva," Karen Post has built memorable brands that sell and add value to products, advocate causes, and create loyalty.

Since 2000, she has led Brain Tattoo Branding, a firm that provides creative and strategic services to start, grow, and manage brands. Post is also a sought-after speaker who addresses global audiences, and she is proud to have been the first female American speaker to address the Saudi Arabian Airlines national conference in 2011.

Karen Post started her first business at the age of 22 and built two successful companies: an award-winning ad agency and a legal communications firm specializing in high-stakes litigation, which she led for over 20 years. In 2006, she launched Brain Tattoo Publishing, an online enterprise for creatively charged entrepreneurs, business professionals, and marketers, which now produces digital learning tools in niche markets.

Throughout her career, Post's work has benefited diverse industries, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies including Albemarle, ACNielsen, Choice International, Cox Cable and Media, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Xerox, Sara Lee, Pepsi, and Procter & Gamble, along with many emerging businesses, trade associations, professional athletes, entertainers, and politicians.

She has authored Brand Turnaround (McGraw-Hill 2011) and Brain Tattoos: Creating Unique Brands that Stick in Your Customers' Minds (AMACOM 2004).

Post is a regular branding commentator on FOX TV and has been featured in other business and marketing print, broadcast, and online media outlets such as FOX, NBC, Bloomberg TV, CBS's Early Show, The New York Times, The New York Post, Fast Company, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, and NPR.

In addition to leading her companies, Karen is an advisory board member of the University of Tampa Entrepreneurship Center, a UT Board of Fellows, and a member of Leadership Houston Class VIII Alumni.